Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day.

We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

They taught me that no man could be their leader except he ate the ranks' food, wore their clothes, lived level with them, and yet appeared better in himself.

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

I prefer lies to truth, especially when the lies are about me.

There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.